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AUGUST 18
He's more Alan Bradley than Richard Hillman but
Tony Gordon's ready to enter that special, dark room at the back of
the Hall of Fame that's home to Corrie's Best Villains. First it was
bats and this week it's cats as Tony throws an old man out of his
home and tosses his cat to the cobbles. And this is no ordinary old
man – it's Jed Stone. Jed's got a photo on his mantle from the old
days with Minnie Caldwell who he always called Ma. He's got history
has Jed Stone, but that counts for nowt with men like Tony Gordon.
Tony wants Jed out of his house so he can bulldoze the terrace to
make way for a multi million pound development in the back end of
nowhere. And when Tony threatens the old man, Jed collapses in pain
clutching his chest. Tony whips out his phone, tells Jason to get
round there and board the house up. Tony's second call is for an
ambulance and as Jed's carted off to t'hospital, he sets Jed Stone's
cat to the ground and shoos it away. But this is no ordinary cat,
it's Sunny Jim. Sunny Jim! Before you know it he'll be miaowing an
SOS to Rita in The Kabin. “What's that Sunny Jim?” she'll call out
from the counter. “Jed Stone's tekken poorly and even though we
haven't seen him for 42 years we'll all rush to his bedside and
mount a defence against the evil Tony Gordon?” And Sunny Jim will
nod his head and lead the soap OAPS from the cobbles to Jed Stone's
hospital bed. But before he does that, I hope he has a cat crap on
Tony's shoe.
Tony's also causing more problems for Kev
and the garage. Kev's called out to service a busty blonde on a
breakdown only to find the woman driver had simply ran out of
petrol. While he's filling her tank with his nozzle, Kev's breakdown
truck is stolen and there's worse to come when the insurance won't
pay up as he left the keys in th'ignition and they're citing
negligence. Kev's world is slowly crumbling and no one seems to
care. Mind you, he's never been the same since he shaved off his
moustache.
Now then, we saw summat this week in Corrie we've
never seen before; the upstairs flat in the Rovers Return. We've
seen the bedroom before when Jack and Vera lived there and when
Shelley was held as a paranoid prisoner in some very bad pyjamas.
And now we get to view the rest of the upstairs as Steve and
Michelle decide to give their relationship another try. However,
all's not well in the love department when Michelle meets old mate
JD on a karaoke night in town. Steve's not best pleased to find JD
staying overnight at the pub and goes all out to get Michelle back.
He succeeds but then she announces she's off to Belgium on a tour
with the band and JD. Or, as Steve likes to call him, Jer
Der.
Ken Barlow's been luckier in love than Steve McDonald
this week, and that's not something I've said in an update before.
He and Deirdre get back together, have a cuddle by Uncle Albert's
photo and then Ken propositions his missus. “D'ya fancy having a
Deirdre in the back yard?” he asks her. “You what?” I said out loud
at the telly. “You what?” said Deirdre in surprise. Apparently, to
“have a Deirdre” is to have a drink of wine in like, really, really
big glasses. I don't think you have to wear the glasses, you just
drink from them, but I could be wrong.
Over at Eileen's,
Sean's upset to find a few lines and wrinkles and considers having
Botox but he can't as he's frightened of needles. Anyway, he and
Marcus go to the clinic together and although Sean comes out in the
same Botox-free state that he went in, the visit changes Marcus'
life and he decides to become a Botox practitioner. He has to attend
a two day course so packs his bags and moves away leaving Sean home
alone to worry about wrinkles.
Tina and David officially fall
out, again, this week after David stalks his ex-girlfriend at work
in the kebab shop. He orders 10 kebabs just to spend time in the
shop and then locks himself in until she speaks to him. She didn't
of course and David got chucked out by Jerry who has this week been
eating curry. (This storyline went nowhere but it was a nice rhyme
that I wanted to use.) Tina gets her revenge when she visits David
at work at Peter and Paul's, the posh hair salon in town. She
pretends she wants a haircut and demands that David wash her
hair. But when she's mid-soak and David hadn't even got round
to asking where she was going for her holidays, Tina pulls a tantrum
and causes a scene, spraying water at David who is then promptly
sacked. He's back to sitting around on the sofa all day while Gail
takes phone calls from Tina's dad Joe asking her on another date and
promising to spank her. Really, he did. I shuddered.
Molly's
Aunty Pam is in a bit of a pickle. In fact, she's got it all over
her hands and half way up her arms. Molly's lost her engagement
ring, the one Jack handed down from Vera, and Pam knows it's in the
pickle somewhere. This is pickle she's been flogging up and down the
Street and she finally narrows it down so she knows exactly which
jar of pickle Molly's ring is in. Trouble is, the jar with the ring
in it is now in Emily's raffle hamper for the Friends of
Weatherfield Hospital and Emily, being Emily, won't be bribed so
that Pam can win.
And finally this week, Roy returned from
visiting Hayley abroad. It can only be a matter of weeks before
Hayley returns and when she does, she'll get as much of a shock as
Roy did to walk into the cafe to find Vernon replacing Roy's trains
with 45rpm singles. Instead of pictures of steam engines and rail
tracks, there were guitars and rock posters. But Vernon's dream of
turning the Roy's Rolls into a Weatherfield Hard Rock café – Hard
Luck Chuck Café – turn to dust when Roy's eyes met the menu board
offering fries instead of chips. And as we all know, Roy is not a
fries guy.
Five things we learned in Corrie this
week.
1. John Stape reads The
Guardian
2. Fiz is a fan of The
Simpsons
3. Steve McDonald reckons Take That is
suitable music for seduction
4. In Balaclava
Terrace there's a restaurant called A Slow Boat to China
5. Liz McDonald once went on a weekend break
to Brussels
And that's just about that for this
week.
Coronation Street writers this week were Jonathan
Harvey, Mark Wadlow, Lucy Gannon, Martin Allen, Mark
Burt.
Glenda
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